What is recorded here

Doocarrick holds a broad oval rath where a low bank and deep waterlogged ditch enclose fifty-seven metres of preserved human ambition. The southeast causeway still marks the entrance, inviting entry into a space large enough for herds, tools and every ordinary life that built it. Fairy forts sound like fantasy, but this is a ringfort: human, deliberate and still standing against the centuries.

Raised oval area (int. dims. 57.5m WNW-ESE; c. 47m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a narrow, deep, partly waterlogged fosse which has been replaced by a modern trench from NE-ESE. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SE represents original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

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